Whenever we visit a destination we always like to explore local places to eat & drink, so when Darren & Mark were in Hua Hin, they turned this in to a ‘pub crawl’ of the town centre!
“Hua Hin is a great place for trying local Thai food, and combined with a good selection of places for a cool beer, it makes an ideal pub crawl location – everything in the town centre is fairly close together, so it’s easy to try various locations without having to walk too far!
We started at the Hilton Hua Hin, one of our favourite hotels in the town as it’s so handy for the beach and the town’s restaurants and bars, yet still maintains a lovely atmosphere. The bar at the front of the hotel is a great place for a spot of people-watching, and we started the day with a Tiger beer – they also have a range of Thai beers, but Tiger seemed like a good starting point!
From here we headed along to where the fishing boats drop their catch off, which to be honest didn’t smell particularly pleasant, but we spotted a pub nearby serving seafood, so headed for it – even if it was a traditional English pub! Not quite what we had in mind for our traditional Thai pub crawl, but the deep fried squid was superb.
Next stop was a café bar that we first visited about 10 years ago, and it hasn’t changed at all – Monsoon’s is close to the beach and serves fantastic cakes, but we were getting back in to the Thai way of doing things, so we had two Singha beers and a plate of fantastic spring rolls. It was a good job we’d headed indoors at the heavens soon opened, but there’s something typically tropical about drinking beer as the rain pours down – quite fantastic!
Then we were back to the seafront, to one of the wonderfully rustic restaurants that’s built on the piers over the beach – Thai fishcakes and my favourite, deep-fried prawn balls, washed down with a large bottle of Beer Lao – again, not Thai, but one of the best beers in the Far East (although we don’t normally need an excuse to drink any beers in the Far East!)
We then walked along the beach, past the Hilton Hua Hin and the Sofitel Centara Grand, to one of the small beach shacks that serves simple Thai food with cold drinks – two plates of Phad Thai and two Beer Chang and we happily relaxed on the beach and watched the world go by for a while.
Last stop on our pub crawl of Hua Hin was at the night market, which is one of the more Thai night markets you’re likely to come across – all the visitors seemed to be Thai tourists from Bangkok, and the food here matched the authenticity of the venue. Our final snack was from one of the stalls on the market and was of Satay, which they do particularly well in Thailand despite it being more of a Malay dish, but when it’s washed down with another Singha beer, you can’t go wrong!”
For holidays to Hua Hin visit http://www.escapeworldwide.co.uk/thai/destin/cha.shtml
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“Hua Hin is a great place for trying local Thai food, and combined with a good selection of places for a cool beer, it makes an ideal pub crawl location – everything in the town centre is fairly close together, so it’s easy to try various locations without having to walk too far!
We started at the Hilton Hua Hin, one of our favourite hotels in the town as it’s so handy for the beach and the town’s restaurants and bars, yet still maintains a lovely atmosphere. The bar at the front of the hotel is a great place for a spot of people-watching, and we started the day with a Tiger beer – they also have a range of Thai beers, but Tiger seemed like a good starting point!
From here we headed along to where the fishing boats drop their catch off, which to be honest didn’t smell particularly pleasant, but we spotted a pub nearby serving seafood, so headed for it – even if it was a traditional English pub! Not quite what we had in mind for our traditional Thai pub crawl, but the deep fried squid was superb.
Next stop was a café bar that we first visited about 10 years ago, and it hasn’t changed at all – Monsoon’s is close to the beach and serves fantastic cakes, but we were getting back in to the Thai way of doing things, so we had two Singha beers and a plate of fantastic spring rolls. It was a good job we’d headed indoors at the heavens soon opened, but there’s something typically tropical about drinking beer as the rain pours down – quite fantastic!
Then we were back to the seafront, to one of the wonderfully rustic restaurants that’s built on the piers over the beach – Thai fishcakes and my favourite, deep-fried prawn balls, washed down with a large bottle of Beer Lao – again, not Thai, but one of the best beers in the Far East (although we don’t normally need an excuse to drink any beers in the Far East!)
We then walked along the beach, past the Hilton Hua Hin and the Sofitel Centara Grand, to one of the small beach shacks that serves simple Thai food with cold drinks – two plates of Phad Thai and two Beer Chang and we happily relaxed on the beach and watched the world go by for a while.
Last stop on our pub crawl of Hua Hin was at the night market, which is one of the more Thai night markets you’re likely to come across – all the visitors seemed to be Thai tourists from Bangkok, and the food here matched the authenticity of the venue. Our final snack was from one of the stalls on the market and was of Satay, which they do particularly well in Thailand despite it being more of a Malay dish, but when it’s washed down with another Singha beer, you can’t go wrong!”
For holidays to Hua Hin visit http://www.escapeworldwide.co.uk/thai/destin/cha.shtml
Escape Worldwide - We've been, we know, just ask!
http://www.escapeworldwide.co.uk/
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